Frequently Asked Questions

Drawing on international frameworks and the work of CSA Group, CANZA defines regenerative farming practices as a set of practices that:

• Minimize soil disturbance
• Maintain continuous soil cover
• Keep living roots in the ground
• Enhance biodiversity
• Integrate livestock grazing

These approaches may also include water conservation, efficient input use, and landscape restoration or enhancement. There is no single recipe for regenerative farming. Rather, it is a menu of practices that farmers can adopt to improve soil health, biodiversity, climate, and water outcomes in measurable and verifiable ways. Climate-smart agriculture extends this even further, capturing integrated strategies to address both food security and climate change

In this first phase, the CANZA Marketplace is a space for farmers, advisors, and collaborators across the agri-food value chain to learn about existing incentive programs that support regenerative farming practices. While having an account is not required to search for funding opportunities or explore resources, creating an account allows you to automatically see the funding incentive programs that best align with your farming operation and sustainability goals, compare different funding programs, and save the programs you are most interested in. Having an account will allow you to access more information on the listed programs including stacking opportunities to potentially leverage funding from more than one program.

An account is required for farmers who are participating in the Million Acre Challenge program, and the Project Advisors supporting the Million Acre Challenge participants.

Learn more about the CANZA Marketplace here.

The Million Acre Challenge Program supports farmers across Canada who are adopting management practices that benefit both the environment and their bottom line. It combines cost-sharing and agronomic support to help farms implement practical, proven approaches that build soil health, protect water, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions while opening doors to emerging environmental outcome markets. Learn more here.

In this first phase of CANZA’s Marketplace, CANZA is working collaboratively with a diversity of program administrators to offer a searchable directory of programs that support sustainable and regenerative farming practices. This directory provides third-party, publicly available information that is intended for general guidance only. Learn more about funding opportunities here.

Stacking describes when a farm business accesses incentives from more than one funding program and/or delivery organization to support a single project.

CANZA’s searchable directory provides third-party, publicly available information that is intended for general guidance only. Program details, including eligibility, deadlines, and application requirements, may change at any time. Always visit the program’s official website to confirm the most accurate and up-to-date information. In most cases, contact information for program administrators and web links have been provided for each program.

No. With the exception of the Million Acre Challenge Programe, all other listed programs are administered by other groups such as Conservation Authorities, government, and NGOs. Always visit the program’s official website to confirm the most accurate and up-to-date information.

To log into the CANZA Marketplace, you must first create an account by selecting Create Account from the menu bar at the top of the page, or Register as a new user on the Log in page and fill in the required fields. Before your account is activated, you must click the link in the account verification email that is sent to you. Once your email is verified, you will be able to Log-in using the email address and password you created.

If you previously created and verified your account but received an “Invalid login attempt” message when trying to log in, ensure that your email address and password were entered correctly. If you’ve forgotten your password, it can be reset by clicking the “Forgot your password?” prompt on the Log in page.

The verification email is automatically sent to the email address provided in the Create Account form. If you do not see the verification email from name@canza.ca in your inbox, check your spam or junk mail folders to see if the email landed there. If it did, you will need to move the email to your inbox before clicking the verification link in the email. Please note that the verification link in the email will expire after 24 hours.

You have 24 hours to click the link in your verification email. If the link is not clicked within that time, it will expire. You can request the verification email to be resent.

The CANZA Marketplace can be used on all common internet browsers including Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, or Safari. We recommend that you are using the most up-to-date version of your chosen browser.

The CANZA team would be pleased to connect with you to answer any questions that are not addressed through the FAQ, or to explore opportunities for you to invest in the resiliency of agriculture, your supply chains, and our ecosystems.

Please send an email to:

marketplace@canza.ca

The Canadian Alliance for Net-Zero Agri-food (CANZA) operates the CANZA Marketplace. The organization is a solution space of Generate Canada.